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We are dedicated to bringing our expertise to your
organization in a manner that respects your culture, history and style.
We customize our solutions to the specific needs of your organization
so as to ensure effective and lasting improvements and success.
Absent a clear vision of where they need to be in the future has lead to the demise of numerous organizations. Many organizations fail to plan routinely simply because they do not know where to begin. Or worse, that Strategic Planning will be a long drawn out process resulting in a stale document that sits on a shelf. As the leader of your organization you know that you cannot waste your valuable resourses to go through a process that someone said you need to do, but will not add value to your future success.
We demystify the process focusing your team’s attention on the relevant and critical issues.
- We help you develop a planning process customized
to the unique needs of your organization:
- Is your organization ready to plan?
- What steps do you need to take to ensure success?
- Who needs to buy in and participate?
- What are the key steps and timeline to completion?
- We work with you to identify those planning
tools that are specifically relevant to your process:
- SWOT assessment tools
- Environmental scanning
- Outcome assessment tools
- Constraint analysis
- Prioritization tools
...The list goes on. The key is to use only those tools that bring added value to your process -
We help you focus on the critical elements of the plan and set aside the issues that will distract from a successful outcome:
- What are your key restraining issues?
- What will enable your future success?
- We help you identify contingency plan that respect the changing nature of your environment.
- We help your team develop a clear, concise and practical plan for
implementation:
- Staffing
- Information systems needs
- Facility planning
- Financial resource assessment
- Accountability matrixes
- Milestone charting
Mapping your future course needs to include creating a clear and concise picture of financial requirements and expectations. This process need not be overly complicated. We help you identify the core elements of your financial plan and work with you to ensure that the plan reflects the critical elements of your Strategic Plan. We will work with your team to:
- Develop long range operating projections based on:
- Business growth
- Economic trends
- Industry trends
- Identify critical capital and programmatic investments as required
by
- Your core business needs
- Growth plans as defined by your Strategic Plan
- Identify potential economic threats and opportunities
- Develop ongoing control and accountability reporting systems
To ensure that your organization thrives, it is essential that it ensure its array of programs reflects the need of its customers. We work with your team to identify new program opportunities and help to design the program with sustainable business models.
It is equally important to ensure that the array of programs currently offered by your organization is in keeping with the realities of today’s environment. Resources are always limited. These limitations may initially make it seem as though there are no resources available to start needed new programs and services. It is essential that the services currently provided by the organization are central to your core mission and are in line with your customer’s needs. We help your team perform rigorous program assessments that ensure alignment with your core mission and ensure that you are maximizing the use of your resources.
Your team has excelled in making the systems work to meet the needs of your customers. Yet somehow, you feel that there remains something more to be done to improve your operational efficiency and effectiveness. Sometimes it is difficult to see the issues clearly when you have been up close and personal with them over time.
Our team will bring a fresh perspective to help you see opportunities for business systems improvement and establish performance improvement methodologies that are straightforward, sensitive to your organization’s culture and in line with your organizational strategies and priorities.
Board Development
We help you create an effective and productive board.
Our goal is to help you get the maximum benefit and potential from your board. We help ensure that the board fully understands its roles and responsibilities and is focused on creating your future success. Our board development processes are designed to ensure that your board becomes one of your organization’s greatest assets. We can help you develop effective:
- Board - Management Retreats
- New Board Orientation Programs
- Ongoing Board Education Programs
Executive Coaching
In today’s complex environment, you and your senior leadership team need to work at maximum efficiency and effectiveness. With the clutter of issues bombarding you, it can be difficult to remain focused on the issues central to your success.
We help you look ahead to anticipate issues in the path ahead that can help or hinder your success, and assist in developing strategies to minimize the negative and capitalize on the positive elements in your environment.
We will help you:
- Increase your overall productivity
- Strengthen your interpersonal skills
- Stimulate innovation in yourself and your team
- Maintain perspective
Most importantly, we will help ensure that fun stays a major part of your professional life. We understand that it is not simply about being productive, efficient and effective. It is also about maintaining the perspective and balance of our total life that makes being productive rewarding and renewing.
- Senior Leadership Development
- Work Team Facilitation and Development
- Customized Training
Strategic Alliance Development
Lawrence/Nuffer Communications
Making sure your organization’s internal and external communications are in harmony with your strategic priorities is critical for overcoming challenges and achieving success. Larry Nuffer has over twenty years experience in developing and implementing strategic communication plans that influence key stakeholders on issues deemed important by your organization
